About me

I am Holger Holland – social entrepreneur, co-founder and managing director of the Berlin College of Business and Technology (BCBT), Honorary Professor for Strategy, Social Innovation & Project Management, EU Climate Pact Ambassador, and chairman of the environmental NGO Let’s Do It Germany e. V.

My focus: sustainable solutions at the intersection of business, technology, and the environment – academically grounded, entrepreneurially executed, socially impactful.

What drives me

For more than 25 years, I have been working on what I consider the defining task of our generation: thinking ecological, social, and digital transformation as one movement. From this conviction, I have founded companies, helped build a university, co-initiated one of Germany’s largest civic environmental movements, and championed a sustainable data culture.

Education and cooperation are, in my view, the most powerful levers – because real change begins where people are empowered to act.

Entrepreneurial path

In 1999, I founded my first company, agepo.world (Agency for Environmental Business & Project Organization). Since then I have led more than 200 environmental and ICT projects for organizations of all sizes – from agile practices and ERP/CRM/PP systems to innovation, network, and community building. This is the toolkit I bring into teaching and consulting today: structured project management, KAIZEN as a mindset of continuous improvement, and “Sustainability as a Service”.

Milestones

since 2024 – Co-founder and managing director, Berlin College of Business and Technology (BCBT); Honorary Professor for Strategy, Social Innovation & Project Management
since 2023 – Head of Strategic Partnerships, Let’s Do It World
2022–2024 – European Director (Regional Director Europe), World Cleanup Day
since 2021 – EU Climate Pact Ambassador; Head of the Global Policy Group, Let’s Do It World
2019–2024 – Member of the Board (Partnerships), World Cleanup Day / Let’s Do It World
since 2018 – Chairman, Let’s Do It! Germany e. V.
since 2017 – Initiator and project lead, World Cleanup Day Germany; managing director, AGEPO
2012–2016 – Managing director, QUEPS digital agency
2008–2012 – Head of sales, WWWgroup – Storage Systems
2004–2008 – Media consultant, TRAILGROUP – sports and event management
1999 – Founded agepo.world

Further training: Certified Project Manager (IHK, 2012), Certified E-Business Manager (2017).

Awards (selection)

2024 – Global Leader Germany, World Cleanup Movement
2023 – UN SDG Award for World Cleanup Day; Global Award Let’s Do It Movement
2022 – Certificate “Outstanding Engagement” (GoNature)
2021 – European Prize Blauer Bär; World Award “The best international cooperation in LDIW network”; nomination for the German Engagement Prize
2020 – Volunteer Award, 1st place Sustainable Engagement; Let’s Do It! World Award “Most successful team at engaging global partners”
2018 – World Class Manager, JCI

Previous teaching assignments

Lecturer in project & process management and business organisation – IHK Academy Middle Franconia
Lecturer in information and communication technology – Eckert Schulen
Lecturer in social entrepreneurship – University of Applied Sciences Erfurt (2018)

Encounters

Holger Holland with the BCBT team — With the BCBT team, Berlin 2025

Holger Holland with Prof. Dr. Günter Faltin — With Prof. Dr. Günter Faltin, Berlin

Holger Holland with Daniela Schwerdt at BCBT — With Daniela Schwerdt at BCBT

Engagement & memberships

I am a member of Rotary Club (District 1950) and a former member of the Federal Executive Board of Junior Chamber International Germany (JCI) / Wirtschaftsjunioren (2016–2017). These networks shape my conviction that civic engagement and entrepreneurial action reinforce each other.